Marcus Wicker is the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial), selected by DA Powell for the National Poetry Series. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. Wicker¹s awards include a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, and Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Third Coast, and Ninth Letter, among other magazines. Marcus is assistant professor of English at University of Southern Indiana and poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.